How Much Sleep Do You Get Per 24 Hours?

While most people sleep at night and work during the day, some people work at night and sleep during the day. Either way, we all need to sleep more than we probably do.
My son went to a sleep clinic and he wears a mask at night. When he travels, he has to take it with him.
We go through different phase of sleep called “rapid eye movement” (REM) about every 60 to 90 minutes and it is during these phases, that the brain is the most active and researchers believe that the brain is performing some kind of self-repair.
If the sleep cycle is interrupted, our brain functions are affected, which can result in a lot of other ailments. For one thing, it can weaken your immune system, because during sleep, our body produces T cells, which fight against diseases.
During sleep, our body also produces the hormone leptin, which helps to regulate appetite. So the body needs sleep as much as it needs proper diet and exercise.
Ecclesiastes 5:12 says: “Sweet is the sleep of the one serving, regardless of whether it is little or much that he eats, but the plenty belonging to the rich one is not permitting him to sleep.”
Many things can cause anxieties of life and worries about what someone has stored up for the future, but that could rob a person of restful sleep.
Do you think you get enough sleep?

@enlightenedpsych2 Currently I am in a position where my schedule is overwhelming and it's very stressful for me. It needs time to achieve that, I felt the control you have described, through your writing.

Most nights I do get enough sleep, but at times my brain will not shut off its ramblings and I have trouble falling asleep. Hopefully good sleep most of the time will be enough to keep my body running efficiently.

True story!
I feel that listening to some light music can help me sleep a lot.
Here's a list of tracks that I love to listen to while trying to sleep.
Let her go by Passenger
Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
Painting greys by Emmit Fenn
Hey there Delilah by Plain White T's
Budapest by George Ezra
Another love by Tom Odell
Hold back the river by James Bay
7 years by Luke Graham
Sound and colour by Alabama Shakes
Photograph by Ed Sheeran
Hopefully these help!

Hi there @Corbin5 on the nights that the sweet brain of yours wants to go into over-drive, take a shoe box (empty of course) a piece of paper with all the thoughts that are racing trying to keep you awake and write them down-- put that piece of paper in the shoe box, close it. Leave it till morning when you can take the piece of paper out and deal with the stuff that might of been keeping you awake all night, with a refreshed slept well induced brain !

I have two kids and between the two of them being up at different times, I am sure I do not get enough sleep. In fact I was told I don't by a doctor. My thought was if he is that concerned about it, he should keep the kids overnight. HAHAHA

@IreneVincent Does her youngest have health/mental issues or is it just the toddler stage? I guess I didn't mention one has add and the other is autistic. LOL They are both funny as anything. No sleep doesn't slow them down. It does me.

Perhaps you should set your mind to sleeping despite any interruptions because the immune system does it updating while in the REM cycle of sleep and what better way to whack any debilitating condition, right ? I know easier said than done . . .

overall I get enough sleep, but it's in cycles. I work both during the day and sometimes during the night and sometimes both. During those time, I try to sleep four hours before and after the nighttime job. Sometimes I think I get too much sleep, but not always. I'm hoping it evens out enough.
If I didn't have to continually get up during the night to get rid of all the fluids I drink during the day, I might get a more restful sleep, but I don't usually stress during the night.

I used to work a "split shift" when I was a long distance telephone operator years ago. 9 am to1pm and then 4pm to 9pm. I didn't like that AT ALL. I finally got a better shift 1:30PM to 9:30 PM. That way I didn't have to get up early and still got home before 10pm

@IreneVincent This is a better shift for me currently, for it's allowing me to get hospital bills paid off and also some debt. Once those are taken care of I'd have the option to go back to working part-time, but if I stay with these hours my pension will be a tad bigger. So it may be worth it overall.
If our employer allows more to go full-time, then that person would get the brunt of the night-time shifts when vacations take place.

7 and 1/2 is better for you. Don't ruin your health for trivial things. I understand if you just can't because of the life you lead. I have to make myself turn off the light at night and go to sleep, because if I'm reading a good book, I don't want to put it down.

It takes three hours to wind down and finally fall off to sleep. After that I only need two hours. But here's the catch. It takes me another 2 hours to really wake up. I won't feel rested if I don't lye there for at least an hour.

Sounds like an interesting routine you go through to sleep. As soon as I turn the light off, I can go to sleep USUALLY, within 10 minutes. TOPS. And I usually sleep all night without waking up unless there's a noise. I hear the least little noises. I can't sleep at all if the wind is blowing or if its storming.